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Perry Pound's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)

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Perry Pound has failed to provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2024 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart and voters like you.

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Issue Positions

For Presidential and Congressional candidates who refuse to provide voters with their positions, Vote Smart has researched their public records to determine their likely responses. These issue positions are from 2024.

  • "This moment, right here on the shores of our great nation, reminds me of my purpose. My daughter is the future, and she deserves a world where she can breathe fresh air, earn a fair wage, and live her life with the freedoms and rights she's entitled to as a woman." (twitter.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "Simplify the tax code. No taxes for anyone making under $60,000 and everyone else pay 10%. Even the billionaires. No loopholes. Period. Would hurt tax accounting/CPA/tax lawyer jobs but make everything much more transparent." (twitter.com)
  • "Simplify the tax code. No taxes for anyone making under $60,000 and everyone else pay 10%. Even the billionaires. No loopholes. Period. Would hurt tax accounting/CPA/tax lawyer jobs but make everything much more transparent." (twitter.com)
  • "Deadline day and it's official: I'm running for U.S. Senate in California! Ready to take the fight to Washington and bring some much-needed sanity. We're talking term limits, campaign finance reform, and so much more. This is just the start, folks. Let's do this!" (twitter.com)
  • "Regardless, we support a national crime bill, utilizing the most effective reform policies coming out of the past few years, as well as supporting and equipping police officers to do their jobs in restoring order in all our communities." (perrypound.com)
  • "The murder rate in the US rose 35% from 2019 through the end of 2021, to 6.8 people per 100,000, compared to 2 per 100,000 in Canada, for the same timeframe. In California, we have seen a 30% increase in shoplifting, defined by Proposition 47 as stealing anything valued below $950. We see our stores getting looted and flash mobs engaging in violence in broad daylight in previously safe areas." (perrypound.com)
  • "Happy Birthday, Navy! I always stand with our military, proud of their dedication to defending democracy here and abroad. Their valor and commitment are unparalleled." (twitter.com)
  • "Hamas killed 22 Americans and 17 are still missing. We count on our military and ambassadors to work together to bring home our dead and missing, and to protect American interests. But we can’t put a team on the field if the US Senate is allowed to play games with our national security! This does not benefit "we the people."' (twitter.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "Homelessness is the most obvious manifestation of social inequality and the systemic underfunding of affordable housing, mental health, drug rehabilitation , and job retraining services. Martin v. Boise, a court ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, requires that cities first ensure enough homeless shelters before clearing sidewalks and streets. The housing must be built first." (perrypound.com)
  • "Housing affordability represents an existential threat to the California economy, as many citizens can no longer afford to live here. That is why we support inclusionary housing – the practice of building affordable housing into every new housing development in California. At the same time, we support streamlining the approval and permitting processes so that housing can be built much more rapidly, which will save time and money and solve the supply imbalance driving excess demand and higher pricing." (perrypound.com)
  • "We support a comprehensive solution to build expedited homeless housing, with ground floor mental, drug rehabilitation, and job retraining services, to house all the unhoused in California. In addition, we support laws making it illegal for states to relocate their homeless populations to other states." (perrypound.com)
  • "We support a national housing policy for zoned sites that eliminates the need for additional discretionary government approvals (excluding building plan check approvals) for all projects which build 25% inclusionary housing." (perrypound.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "Forgiving all student loans ($1.6T) would cost less than the recent PPP Loans ($3T)" (twitter.com)
  • "Our college and university system is the envy of the world yet has become unaffordable to most of our citizens. Costs have risen over 50% since 2000! For-profit student loans with usurious rates have created a generation of financially insecure adults." (perrypound.com)
  • "We support a student loan forgiveness program, including suspending the interest rate on outstanding loans." (perrypound.com)
  • "Yesterday was the 58th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, signed into law nearly 100 years AFTER the 14th and 15th Amendments guaranteed the right to vote to all American men regardless of race. This was a heroic moment, but more work remains..." (twitter.com)
  • "We support building a more robust, smart national energy grid, making renewable energy tax credits permanent, promoting further research and development of alternative energy sources, and incentivizing direct air capture at power plants, to ensure a healthier, sustainable world for all." (perrypound.com)
  • "Fossil fuels have been the most successful technology in raising worldwide living standards and spurring innovation. But Yes, FFs should be replaced as quickly as possible with non-polluting energy as FFs, in addition to causing climate change, cause many human deaths annually" (twitter.com)
  • "The United States should retain and extend its position as a net exporter of energy. Fossil fuels have enabled worldwide economic growth and the US retains enviable stores of fossil fuels. However, fossil fuel pollution accounts for 400,000 deaths annually. The US should continue to utilize fossil fuels, while reducing pollution through more stringent emission standards and employ direct carbon capture at all power plants. Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards should be automatically increased annually to drive further innovation and efficiency. At the same time, car manufacturers should be incentivized to produce more hybrid and electric cars. With the increase in energy demand from more hybrid and electric cars, the US must update its energy grid, build more power plants, and continue to aggressively research and develop alternative energy sources, such as solar, wind, and nuclear." (perrypound.com)
  • "We support Climate Resilience laws designed to preserve water during rainy seasons, prevent wildfires, provide for cleaner air, reduce pollution, and reduce our carbon output." (perrypound.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "Criminals should never have access to guns." (twitter.com)
  • "Gun violence is now the number one cause of death for children, with over 6,000 children killed or injured by guns in 2022. In addition, there were 332 children shot at school and 650 mass shooting events in 2022. As parents, we console our kids, who learn active-shooter drills before they learn basic math. This is both infuriating and pathetic, considering the bipartisan solutions that unite most Americans." (perrypound.com)
  • "We support gun laws requiring universal background checks, licenses for owning a firearm (like owning and operating a car) which would include mental health screening, and the reenactment and update of the bipartisan 1994 Assault Weapons Ban." (perrypound.com)
  • "Fear is not the best motivator. And the country should not be "turned around." Or turned left. Or right. The country should be moved #forward with new ideas on #housing #homelessness #crime #gunviolence and #climate. This all starts with Senate #Reform! End the #filibuster and pass #TermLimits!" (twitter.com)
  • "A universal health care system, not just for-profit health insurance, should be available and affordable for all. The United States spends more than any other nation on Health Care, at $5 Trillion. Tax dollars are first used to subsidize Health Care companies, which then charge taxpayers for coverage. And health insurance premiums and prescription drug prices continue to rise! Businesses should not administer health care, as this can cause people to stay in dead-end jobs just to keep their health care." (perrypound.com)
  • "Let’s celebrate National Pharmacy Buyer Day by reminding ourselves that Big Pharma stands in the way of affordable healthcare." (twitter.com)
  • "We support a universal health care system, like Medicare, for all. Private health insurance can still be made available to individuals who choose to pay for it. Medicare shall be protected for senior citizens." (perrypound.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "And health insurance premiums and prescription drug prices continue to rise! Businesses should not administer health care, as this can cause people to stay in dead-end jobs just to keep their health care." (perrypound.com)
  • "Immigration reform and border security are like two sides of a coin. You can't have one without the other. Let's flip the coin on our broken immigration system and build a better future for everyone." (twitter.com)
  • "Strengthening our border is a vital national security concern, not to keep all immigrants out, but to know who is coming in." (perrypound.com)
  • "We support strengthening our borders and creating a guest worker program that could serve as a ladder to citizenship. In addition, we support improving our Visa program to bolster business creation by US-educated entrepreneurs." (perrypound.com)
  • "… and we need a comprehensive plan that opens the doors of opportunity to hard-working families who share our values and want to be Americans, while securing the border against terrorists and cartels. It can be done!" (twitter.com)
  • "We support strengthening our borders and creating a guest worker program that could serve as a ladder to citizenship. In addition, we support improving our Visa program to bolster business creation by US-educated entrepreneurs." (perrypound.com)
  • "… and we need a comprehensive plan that opens the doors of opportunity to hard-working families who share our values and want to be Americans, while securing the border against terrorists and cartels. It can be done!" (twitter.com)
  • "Immigration reform and border security are like two sides of a coin. You can't have one without the other. Let's flip the coin on our broken immigration system and build a better future for everyone." (twitter.com)
  • "Strengthening our border is a vital national security concern, not to keep all immigrants out, but to know who is coming in." (perrypound.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.

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